XML Serialization question - How to Serialize Element, Attribute and Text from One Object

Question

I'm new into XML Serialization using .NET and after working with it for some time I'm quite fuzzled now. I can serialize elements with attributes containing other elements but how can I serialize something like

<myElement name="foo">bar</myElement>

I use a class for myElement with a XmlAttribute for the "name", but how to refer the value of the XML Element?

Thanks in advance.

Marc Gravell · Accepted Answer · 2009-04-28 09:48:13Z

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[XmlText], like so:

using System;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
[Serializable, XmlRoot("myElement")]
public class MyType {
    [XmlAttribute("name")]
    public string Name {get;set;}

    [XmlText]
    public string Text {get;set;}
} 
static class Program {
    static void Main() {
        new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyType)).Serialize(Console.Out,
            new MyType { Name = "foo", Text = "bar" });
    }
}

answered Apr 28, 2009 at 9:48

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3 Comments

DVM Over a year ago

6 years later and it just solved my problem also:). Thanks Marc!

Suncat2000 Over a year ago

XmlSerializer throws a Reflection exception if MyType is a property.

Marc Gravell Over a year ago

@Suncat2000 if you're seeing something unexpected, an example (maybe on "gist.github.com") would really help

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